This Little Light of Mine: Memories from the Mom of a Child with Down Syndrome

This Little Light of Mine is a collection of vignettes that are sometimes humorous and sometimes a serious historical record of life with a mentally challenged daughter who becomes an adult and lives to 60 years. My daughter, Sue Ann, was born in 1956 when people with Down syndrome were an embarrassment and hidden from society. As a young nursing school graduate and a 1950's woman who was starting a family, I was suddenly faced with the emotional decision to disregard the pediatrician's pus...